Volunteers translate Email Self-Defense guide into Spanish, Romanian, and more

Free software community rallies around FSF to translate Email Self-Defense into still more languages.

When the FSF launched our guide to personal email encryption last
month, it was enthusiastically received by English-speakers looking
for an easy way to get started fighting bulk surveillance. Our community then came together to translate it and bring it to speakers of
six more languages. Today we're launching the second round of
translations: Spanish, Romanian, Italian,
and Greek.

This guide started as an effort of the FSF and some skilled graphic
and Web designers, but it's become a worldwide effort by free software
activists translating in more than ten countries. This kind of
teamwork is what our movement is all about, and the FSF is thrilled to
facilitate it.

The Free Software Foundation provides the infrastructure and
professional management for our community of translators, and
rigorously researches and refines the material in Email
Self-Defense. We also maintain Edward, the multilingual encryption
reply bot program. We've spent a lot of time and energy on this guide
so far, and we want to spend more, but we need resources.

Your donation will also enable us to make technical infrastructure
improvements to EmailSelfDefense.fsf.org to make it easy to translate
into more languages, and hopefully let us add a set of instructions
for using encryption on mobile devices.

Our goal is to make email encryption approachable for people
speaking any language and using any device, while also using the
guide to deliver a clear message about the importance of free
software.

If you'd like to create a version for a language that we haven't
published yet, or help maintain one of the existing translations,
please send an email to campaigns@fsf.org telling us about your
experiences with translating.

We're also looking for people to join the GNU.org translation
team and create translated versions of Richard Stallman's article
"How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?" The article
makes the point that, to fight bulk surveillance, we need to reduce
the amount of data that is collected about our lives in general (both
by government and private entities).

Thank you for being such a supportive community, and coming forward to
help us with this project. We're happy to be making it easier for you
to protect your privacy and put up a defense against surveillance.